The Lepidopterists' News

THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE LEPIDOPTERISTS' SOCIETY / P. O. Box 104, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts • Edited by C. L. REMINGTON and H. K. CLENCH Vol. I, No. 5 September, 1947

PLANS FOR A SEASON SUWW'Y The November 1TEWS will be d.evoted almost c )mpletely.to regional summaries of the Lepidoptera collecting season~ ' Amer.ica north of Mexico. This will be in:tended as an annual event, so that after a few years it may be possible to begin to underst.\nd the cyclic nature of butterfly and moth population fluctuations an~ other important trends. Any success in this project will be attrtbutable only to the .~ooperation of Society members from all sections p.f. the cont1nent. 'rhus we urge as many as pqs sible to co;ntribut e tht ir reports, Even­ tually we expect to have each regional sununary ass. 'mbled by one member from each region, but thi~ first year only the West haSl 'been so set up. The points we hope to have answered are: 1) Via, the flight period of the various species earlier or later than the ave~'age? 2) It either early or late, did it return t,o normal or otherwise change as the season progressed? 3) Did unusual climatic events (c,lld, drought, excessive rain, hurricanes, etc.) occur, and if so, wtat was their effect on Lepidoptera? 4) Did biological or human aga1cies (para­ sitism, fires" birds, etc.) affect Lepidoptera this yeti' in an unusual wn :y? 5) Did any individual species show very unusual c.'langes--rare species suddenly conwon or vice versa? It is not very helpful merely to call the season good or bad. In England it was found that collectors called. any season tad which wasn't well a.bove , the average. Yle peed more details.

See page 50 for a sample of the type ~f sea~on summary needed. California, Arizona, and Nevada collectors please send summaries to: IJr. Llinsect" whose characters and habits have' hitherto been unknown, or a synopsis or =ono6~nph o£ Bo=e 5en~g 9. ~~±1YI th~n to C~~t to vhe wor1U a wn01e number of hasty descriptions of species; for while descriptive work thoroughly and faithfully done 1s of the highest order and most ,cred­ itable, it is a fact that many entomological writers have busied them­ selves with descriptive work which has mid little oth'er result than to confusG and perplex ,all subsequent honest and serious workers in the same D4eld. • •• it lis chiefly among LeNidoptera that the unsatis­ factory and careless descriptions prevail. - Excerpt from 1886 Presidential Address .f to Entomological Society of Washington.

---- .. ------­~ As noted on page 46 of tho "August" issue, certain unexpe_cted. -e-vents t-oek~ t-he-' Vi · ,' o-r-f-"-o h c-n'ettu-nrBb carefuI'1y- olToweCI In t e first two numbers. ,The July NEWS appeared in early August and Septem­ ber i~sue was not mailed until September 27. Thus,, ', the ' curr~nt number is not going out unt il mid-October. However, number 6 should be out. befQre the end of the month, and its dateline will again be correct. As announced on page 37, the annual membership list will accompany the October' issue. Editor Clench has left Cambridge to 'enter the Univer­ sity of Michigan and consequently may be unable to take an important ~art in the preparation of the NmVS. The help of r~s. Jeanne E. Reming­ ton greatly eases the editorial burden, but there remains a real need "-' or more contributions such as those of Dr. Brower (pp. 19,20, and 57). ';e hope to have ,more book reviews and life history notes written by specialists and biographies written by' those with extensive libraries available. (We hopo to have an article on Dr. Barn~s by Dr. J. McDunnough during the next few months.) Meanwhile, pleas e bear with us when the ~VS is not precisely on schedule, remembering that now it is virtually a one-man job,

------,------SAl~LE SEASON SUWdARY------A sample terse, but 'instructive summary might read thusly': n In $eneral~ the Lepld.Qpte~ wero ' d..is1L1nct_Iy leas abundant~ than u.s a1._ After a good oarlyspring, a long cold spell in late May ruined' col­ lecting so that the Euchloe and Incisalia did not appear at all. Thruout June the coolness persisted" but collecting s'lowly improved, with all species flying about 3 weeks later than normal. Mitoura damon, a May fliev, aotuully waa common in late June. By mId-July the flight periods had "caught-up" and the later summer Lepidoptera, such as the Catocala, many sphingids" aegeriids, S:eeyorla, and blues, occurred on the usual dates and in av'erage nurnbe.rs. The strymon pu­ pae produced far more yollow chalcid wasps than adult strtmon, so all members of this genus were relatively scarce. Acronic a americana was also heavily paraB1tlzed, and the EU1hXdryas phaeton larvae were killed in large numbers by a fungus. Doba hilaeus, normally very common at flowers, was not found onco and the r umlally abundant lar­ vae could not be located on the Pawpaw shrubs. Catocala sappho and strymon m-album were taken here for the first time. Hesperia ~~, , very rare species hero, was again taken in April." \ - , :If! BO~K RliV1IEWS ' ~ ; :: ~. ~ , 5. The Moth eook* "' • A popular a Knowledge of-rhe MOths of North America , C . • ~ by W.J. Holland e ~ The Butterfly Book by tne same author was reviewed in the June NIDvs.-:Is Bolland .rFinklY stated, The MOth Book '18 an even less com­ prohens 1 ve, bu.t popular guide .to mOBi COIIect inS. The pompo,us .prefac e axplains carefull~ th,t it was impossible to describe and figure all t.he North American moth species in one volume, so that "the effort was made to select those species which would adequately represent· the various families and the ,commoner and more important genera." , ,a (0 , .1 After tour chapters ~ l1fe-~istory, techniques, classification, lit~rature, etc., ~he book become~ · for over 400 pages a briefly anno­ ta.ted enumeration of families, genera, and spe.cies of moths. As was Iblland's custom, the book ls, sprinkled with, 'eight- ,delighttuleasays on-methy: sub~. he-:-at'"'1rring SUgaring- £Ol'-:rM> th's" raub ·ave e"IDfiJ.y Jonverted even Hollandts friend, Andrew Carnegie, to the ardent pursuit )f the genus Catocalal The annotated specj.es list .necessarily has only d, few wor~s concerning each moth"generally only distributLon and host 'pLant belng gl ~en. ·The 4'8 plates are all in color, containing photo­ g:raphs of 1505. apec1-mens 'Plate I 1s of lar 'vae~ painted, by Mrs. Vim. Bai.l.tenmuller. There are also 263 text ,figures. It 'is very unfor~unate that a large n~er of the moths on the piates are misidentified, the Catocala be1!l8 the worst. ~ ,(A ,series of corrections 1s being uril:le'rtaken by the NEWS ; the first of which is on page . 57 of this issue.) The plates are so good that when a new J.t>th Book is published Holland·'f s 1)late./J might wel·l "be retained. Even with their many incorrect identi­ :.' icatlons they compensate somewhat for the inc,omplete and too ?re­ "L ~lEmtly mistaken text. Holland easily could have had space, for many r::)1.'e s~ecies and details had he been able to condense the overly ver­ bose grandiloquence which always bound him. -. 11. Holland wrote at tbe end of the book whAt seems a fair appraisal of his 0rU£: "we feel. " .that wei have given a fuller and more complete review 0 he whole subject to Amerlcan students than has ever been essayed in any booklby an:>TJ ot he,r writer. • •• the tasK nas been ••• with the ~ sole purpo~e of populari~ing knowledge and helping those who have eyes t-o see and ears to ar-, _ :u.nderstan s"Ometh1.-ng -' . a: or IO: m icn 1I becomes the more wonderful the more we know 'of it. 1 C.L. Remington

__~~ ______~ ' ~_ J *Published in 1903, reprinted 1937, by Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. 479 & xxiv pp., 48 p,la ~es(color), 263 text figs. ~ C 'j' , ~'vl\. , blI rl .. ..e.o 11 'lq , • .ollb.t G'tO .~ u ~rl 9[1 3no1 rljl \!B~~ -51 ... RECENT PAPERS ON LEPIDOPTERA

34. Adamczewski, Stanislaw '~Notes - on the Lepidoptera of Poland." The Entom~logist, vol. 80, pp. 102-106, 133-136., May, June, !§47. Author con Inued scientific observations during German occupation and under great hazard. His work was greatly hampered when the Germans deliberately burned his library, notes, and collections. Present paper wr1tten from memory. ~cludea leaf-miners on .. . Arctostaphylo&, oak, and POl?ulus, Lepidoptera ' of GR80 h11a and Lar1x, and a new method ot capturing 1nsects by ' lig t 1by ultra­ r violet, to circumvent German blackout regulations) which yields spec,es not caught at white light. . .

350 Bell~ ft~L. "A Catalogue of the Hesperioidea of Venezuela." 122.!­ ' grin de Entomologia Venezuetana, vol. 5, pp. 65-203 • . Dec. .. ,1,946.. Known to us only from r·evi-ew by Torre-Bueno in . Bulletin Brooklyn~. Soc. Said to list ' 155' genera with 409 .spp. 36. Bell, Ernest L. "A New Genus and Some' New 'Species and Subspecies of Neetrol1ical Hesperiidae". Artf. Mus eutn Novitates 'no. 1354, 12 pp., 10 figs, . Aug. 18, 1941{." AI:l.;>ther of Mr. Bell's fine studies on American skippers. Describes new genus Zalomes l gen­ otype ,z. colobus n. sp. (Colombia); also ~ncludes consplcua .. (Hayward') descrIbed ·in genus I4010( .from Lcuador. Other new spp. ' area Phocides johnsoni (ColoiiiD!i},Codatraotus amazonensis .(Colombla'& BrazIl), Pellicia berra (Colombia) PholIsora lorea . (Colombia) palla guasea (Colombia), Dalla ·dora (Ecuador), Rhinthon sarus (Brazil), Lerodea-hoffmanni (Mexico)~ ' and Vorates par8Jf1\1s (Colombia). New .subspp. are: Gorsot&s viridlceps sneldernl (Colombia), Dalla , ~uasca equatoria Ecuador), and poanes ' zabulon .richteri (Colombia . ' The male genitalia of the 10' n. spp. are figureq.·. . . " ; .

37. Bell, Ernest L. "Atrytone s1ngularis Herrich-Schaffer apd ·the d subspecies insolata Butler." Am. , l~s. Novitates, no, 1359, 5 pp., 1 fig. Aug." 22, 1947. A. s:-iingularls forlJ).erly ~ . known . o~ly . from unique, male type (Guan~anamo, Cuba). Bell records tw,? fresh pairs, taken 1943-46, ' also in Orlente ·Province, and .a female .trom "Cuba". Species is undoubtedly' very rare or local. Both se~es described in d~tail and male gen1ta~ia figured. Race 1nsolata"of Jamaica & Hispaniola, much commoner than Cuban race, also-,descr1bed and compare.d 1n detail. 8ibliography given. - . , ,J 38. Chapin, James P. "Cocoon to the Nth Power," Natural History (N.Y.), . vol. LVI, p.141. Mar.,1947. Brief account, wrth photo, of huge communal cocoon containing 300-400 individual cocoons of Anaphe, the African Processlonary caterp11~ar, round 1n the Gold Coast. ~ . ' " ' . . . 39. Clark, Austin H. tiThe Interrelationships of the Several Groups within the Butterfly Superfamily Nymphaloidea." Proc.!ill!. Soc. Washington, vol. 49, pp. 148-149. June, 194~Charac­ terizes thTs superfam11y by having prothoracic (fore) legs reduced in both sexes. Divides it primarily 6n larval characters. Recog- ni zes :3 subdi vis ions; . , , 1. Lar.vae spineless & fusiform: Satyridae, Brass'olldae, Morphidae, Apaturidae. 2. Larvae spined & cylindrical~ Marpes1idae, Nymphalidae, Ergolidae, Argynnidae, Acraeidae. 3. Larvae spineless & cyllndrical, with long fleshy filaments: Danaidae. RECENT PAPERS-cont. 39 • . (cont .• ) Paper ends with list or families, subfamilies, arid some tribes of Nymphaloidea. Clark distinguishes melitaeids from argynn\1ds in that former "commonly wave their wings 8. few times before bringing them together., like vaness ids ." Reviewer feels uncerta.in of this distinction.. Eyewitness accounts f':t'om members will be welcome to the NmvS. A separate kindly sent by Dr. Clark shows an important printing omission in the list of higher categories,. 40. Corbet, A• .8. "The ·Forms of Idrusia nyctelius (Dbl.• 1845) (Nymphali­ dae) in the Malay Peninsula." The Entomologist" vol-. 80, pp .. 28'-29.. Feb. 1947. Genua crose to Apatura.Polymorphic femalfls, mimicking Eup10ea. Names as new, iaina for f'emale form mimicking males of E. diocletianus, with almost no description at all. 41,. Corbet, A.S. "Nacaduba oltetti, a new speci~s < of Lycaen+d fr.om ~ Cey:lo _ CLap;dopter.aT Pro.c .Roy.Ent-e-SoC:eLondon (a), vol.16, pp.1-2, 3 f1gs. 13 Mar. --r9if'7. Descrioes thIs lycaenid as new and names it for L.G. Olyett Woodhouse, with sinple drawings of male genitalia. 42. Dannreuther, T. "Migration Records, 1946~tt The ~tomolo~ist, vol. 80, pp. 107-112, 137-144. May, June, 19-47. Summar zas 1946 migra.tions, mostly of Lepidoptera, in England, with brief notes on other parts of northwestern Europe, 43. Davis, R.A. "Notes on urticating Le~idopterous larvae becoming of some local medical importance. Proc. RO • Ent. Soc. London (A), vol. 22, pp. 3-4. 5 l'~ay 1947~ecor as large-SCale out­ break of urticarial weals among humans around Beirut, Lebanon, caused by hairs of Pine Processionary Moth (prob. Th~umatopoea pitxocampa Schiff). Even breeze seemed to carry the na1rs_ Also reports severe weals from larvae of Limacodidae in Gold Coast -­ apparently allevia·ted by juices of larva applied to ,weal.

44. Evans, W.H. "Hesperiana", ~.~.Soc.~ • ., vol. 49, pp.162-l63. June, 1947. A cursory surveyor-the progress of skipper study, including a historical summary, remarks on the role of genitalic studies. Estimates there are 2600 spp. (9000 names) and 450 genera of Hesperildae, with over half the gener~ ang . spec~e~ in th~ Ame-r1:cas. Re'ports 'tnat a ca alogue of Old World spec iea (except .Africa, which has been covered already) is ready for publication, and a catalogue for America is under preparation. 45. Fletcher, T .B. "Some species of Cosmoclostls (Lep. zAlucitidae)lt. Proc.Roy.Ent.Soc.London (B), va!. 16, pp_ 42-52.· 9 June 1947. Descr'IbeS as new: Cosmoc1ostis chalconota (Uganda), C. brachybela (Transvaal), and C:-!eupomochla(ceylon & India), Q. hemiadelphia (Australia), and C. lamprosema (New Ireland), all of which had gone under Meyrick'a~glaodesma. The ten species of the genus occur only in Africa, Ceylon - Burma, and Australia-New Ireland, a support for the Wegener-ian Hypothesis of· Continental Drift, Fletcher has the interesting viewpoint that holotype-allotype need· not be distingUished, and he uses "paratr.reu as applying to any specimen found to be identical with the ttype"" ~ figures given.

. -5:3- RECENT PAPERS-cont. 46. Freeman, T.N. itA New Generic Assip:nment for Archips fumiferana (Clemens), the Spruce Budworm. ff Canadian Ent., vol. 79, p. 21. Feb~ 1947. Well-known economic pest place~n genus Choristoneura Lederer, reasons to '.be given in later paper.

47·o .Freeman, ToNe "The External Anatomy of the Spruce audworm, Chor­ lstoneura :f'umiferana (Clem.)". Can.Ent., vol. '79, pp. 2l~ 10 figs. Fleb? 1947. A portion01 aPh.D. thesis. Describes external morphology of this tortric~d, with 10 clear drawings, sh?wing the structures described. · References , included. -.18 .. Gabrtel, A.G. itA New Species of Phasis (Lepid. Lycaenidae) from ' Sd¥~h Africa." The Entomologist, vol. 80" , pp.60-6l. *r., .1947. fhasis diC'kSonJ:. no sp. from Cape Province described in detail. Types in Brit. I~seum. 49. Hagget,t, L.G. ItLepiC\optera Taken at· Light at Arundel in ' 1945-1946,~tf ~ Entomol.ogisJ~, .101. 13, RP! 97-101. May, 1947. List 249 spp. ,of ,moths taken at light in England and gives general observa·· tions. 50. Haydak, Mykola H. "Rearing Clothes Moth and Black Carpet Beetle in the Laboratory." Journ.Econ.Ent., vol. 40, pp. 278-280. Apr. 1947. Describes technique, food mixtures, etc. used for large­ scale rearing of Tineola biselliella Hum. and the beetle. 51. Hedges, A.V. "A List of ManX Lepidoptera." ' The Entomologist, vol. 80, pp. 44-46, ,62-66, 89-94. Feb., Mar.,Apr., 1947. From the Isle, of Man, lists 170 spp., including 16 butterflies. 52" Jenks, G.E. & Kay McKay, l'Ugly Duckling," Natural History: (N. Y.), vol. LVI, pp. 306-309, Sept., 1947. 13 fIne photos showing life cycle of T\issock l'40th, ~!:2£..ampa vetusta Bois. 53. Lempke, B.J. "Bena prasinana (Lep.): Another Nomenclatorial Dif­ ficulty.1t ,The Entolliologlst, vol. 80 .. 'pp. 128-132, pl. II, figs. 3,4. June, 1947. Corrects misapplication of Linnaeus' name, under which bicolorana Fuessley falls as a synonym, because no one had bothered to go back and read the priginal description carefully. ' 54. McDunnough,- J .. "The ,Agrotid Genus -Agrotiphl1a Gr..t. _and lts Qeno- type." Can.Ent., vol. 79, pp. 38-39. Feb. 1947. Careful back­ checking or-fype material in British Museum results in synonymizing Agrotimorpha Benj. under Agrotiphila Grt. (without front prominence) and resurrecting Orosagrorrs-Hampson (distinct frontal prominence). Grote thought the genotype specimen to be ,montana Morr., but was actually colorado Smith. Also surmises from figure of female genitalia that subgenus Menada Kozh. is synonym of' Orosagrotis. Also' transfers churchillensif!. McD. from Agrotiphila to l'l!uxoa. 55. Moeck, A.R. "A New Subspecies of Speyeria atlantis (Edwards) from New Mexico (Lepidoptera: Nymphaliaae).1t Ent.News, vol. 58, pp~ 73-75, 4 photos. March, 1947. New race desc'rIbed from north­ central New Mexico~ Description regrettably brief and difference~ from race nausicaa of Arizona seem rather slight. Details of data of type series presented well. Clear photos of both surfaces of holo- and allotype given. Primary types taken 1a copula. The new race was named dorothea. RECENT PAPERS-concl. Needham, J.G. itA Moth Larva that Lives on Fern Spores (Lepidopter­ aj Heliodinidae)." Proc.Ent.Soc,.Wash., vol. 49, pp. 165-166. , June~1947. Careful descrrption-or:nest and habits of Er1neda elyella BU3ck feeding on opores of fern Acrostichum 'aureum In Fl~. 57. Remington, 'P.S. "Notes on the Type Locality of Syeyeria egleis ,, '" ', s'ecreta dos Pas sos and Grey. 1'1 Ent ~ News, vo • 58, pp. gg-lob~ , · Apr. 1947. Corrects careless labellrng-of original collector '" of secreta, records exact type locality, and gives .additional rec- ords of occurrence. A clear proof of the necessity of including accur~te data with all specimens co~lected. ' 58. Richal)!ds, A.G .. "Studies on Arthropod Cuticle. I. The Distribution ' of Chitin in Lepidopterous Scales, anp. its Bearing on the In-· terpretation of Arthropod Cuticle." Annals Ent.Soc,of Ameri ... ~, vol. 50, pp. 227-240, June,1947. For some yearS-Dr. Rl--::h- ards, enthusiastic Lepidopterist and insect physiologist, has ca~­ ried Oll a_ campaign to correct · ~e old _text'bQOlt na.r~t...eri..za.-.tion of insect · (and other arthropod) cut icle as ' u,a chitinous exoske,l­ etonlt • He concludes that the cut icle 1s actua,lly \1 a plasticize'd protein sheet ••• subdivided by ••• waxes ••• and chitin". The present paper records results of analysis of scales of 109 species of Lep­ idoptera in 103 genera of 45 families. His table shows that scales of 3 species contained no chitin, scales of half the species were largely chitin, and the others had , lesser amounts. Black scales were always chitinous. Fore wfng scales were chitinous more ' often than hind, wing scales. , Marginal scales were more or;,. ten chitinous than wing center . scales. Iridescent scales were always non-chitinous while non-iridescent scales contained chitin in MDr§e0 and all other' iridescent species except Chlorippe sera­ thina n. Newly' developed scales in the ,pupal wing have no-chI­ in even when strongly chitinous in adult wing. McDunnough check­ list followed in listing -of sp~cies.

59. Stallings, Don B. &. J.R. Turnert "Notes on Kansas ,Butterflies with Description ,of a New Subspecies." Journ. Kansas Ent.Soc., vol. 20, pp. 93-94. July, 1947. Report Amblyscirtes oslirI and Glaucopsyche lygdamus as residents of Barber Co., Kansas. Kansas lygdamus described as new subspecies G. l~damus jacki. Described in detail and distinguished from all olfier races, but no photograph gJ, ven~ P..r1mar:y; typas re~ainea · 1n -authors eollect 10nl

60. Sugden, J.W., A.M. Woodbury, &. Clyde Gillette "Notes on Migrations of the Painted Lady Butterfly in 1945.u Pan-Pacific Ent., vol. 23 J pp. 79-83. Apr. 1947. Dispersal northward rlighrs-in Utah prev10usly reported by one or all of these, ~uthors 1n 1924, 1930, 1931,- 1935, and 1941. Flight of 1945 in .utah was less than 1941 and in California" greater than 1941. During the six migrations observed in over 20 years the height of flight in utah varied from March 30 to May 8. The 1941 flight oviposited on all thistles in the route. The 1945 flight did not, since it was too early for the thistle plants. A valuable field study.

Wind,R.G. &. H.K. Clench, "The Genus Callictita (Lepidoptera,Ly­ caenidae)". Psyche, vol. 54, pp. 57-61. Mar. 1947. New Guinea genus with one -speCies, three races,- one Q. cyara arfak­ ~ described as new and apparently well worth naming. -55- BRIEF BIOGRAPHmS 5. Charles Valentine Riley (1843-1895) An eager, talented English boy, winning prizes ,at school for his artistic yet accurate drawings of butterflies; was to become several decades later one of America's most distinguished entomologists. Char­ les Valentine Riley was born near London on September 181 1843, and ed~ ucated 1n England, France, and Germany. At the age of 17 he came to the llilited states and settled on a farm in Illinois. His great inter­ est in insects opened many opportunities for scientific observations even while he worked as a farmhand, and this knowledge provided a back­ ground fo~ his position four years la~er on a prominent Chicago agri- ' cultural journal', The Prairie Farmer, as reporter and editor of the en­ tomological section:- In l86S' he was appointed state Entomologist of Missouri, a position in which he served capably for ten years. Vihen the grasshopper plague of 1873-77 swept over the Great Plains, Riley was commissioned director of the government committee. to study and plan the control of the pests. In 1878 he accepted the post or entomologist in the U.S. Bureau q£ Ag~~c~tu.re . He ,was an able , aciministrat,Qr ~d admirably organized the Division of Entomology as its first chief. One of his most ardently pursued projects was the establishment of state and federal agricultural experiment stations. At length, in 1894, be­ cause of poor health, he reSigned from active government work in order to spend the remaind~r of his ~ife on his own research. Because of his inquisitive nature, keen observatibn, and clear writing, C. V. Riley holds a lasting position of honor in American ent­ omology. Goode reported that Riley published the astonishing number of over 1600 . papers~ The famous n1neMissouri Reports , on destru'ctive in­ sects are filled with thorough descriptions and life histories, of v:hich Darwin wrote that he was "struck with admiration". He studied the hab1ts, bi~logy, and morphology of insects in many orders, an!1 abundantly illustrated his papers with his own excellent drawings. By depositing his extensive collection, he established the Insect, Depart­ ment of the· U.S. National Museum, and became its honorary. curator. He also founded the Entomological SOCiety of Washington. The French gov­ ernment· awarded him the Legion of Honor medal for his aid in the study and control of grape phylloxera. . . Riley1s active interest in butterflies and moths probably stemmed from his acquaintance as a boy withW.C. Hewitson, noted English Lepi­ dopterist. ,He collected and drew these insects even then, and later in America undertook investigations of habits and biology in many groups of Lepidoptera; for ' example, he discovered, the carnivo~ous habits of the larvae of Feniseca tarquinius. Although not a "systematist", he did describe ' new genera' and species in several families of moths. One or his most extensive observations was on the Yucca moths, Pronuba and Prodoxus, and on the Yucca borer, Me~athymus. His constant emphas1s. on the importance of habit and lifeistory studies is illustrated by the excerpt from one of his speeches quoted on p. 50. It was an ironic tragedy and in'estimable loss to entomology that at the age of 52, less than a year after Riley resigned from formal duties to pour hiB full energies into research, he was injured in a bicycle accident and died within a few hours. Thus ended suddenly a brilliant and potentially, m~re productive career. . Jeapne E. Remington ------Erratum: for "September" in line 3, paragraph 2, page 50, read "August'~ • -56- Changes and Correct1ons to Holland's ~ ~ - 1. by Dr. A.E. Brower

N-.omenclature of 'insects is not yet in the stabilized condition 80 many uninit1ated collectors seem to expect. Name changes must some­ time&. be made, due to the acc~~atlon or new specimens, the applica­ tion or new methods or taxonomy, caretul study ot older literature,and ~orrect1on of careless earlier, work. The MOth ~ by Holland has "jeen and ..st1ll remains the most valuableboOk the American amateur col­ lector can obtain. Consequently a series -of corrections of the identi­ fications for specimens in the tine plates will appear in the NEViS. The following is the first in this series • . This list gives the right names -:or all the Cfitocala figures which are misnamed, as accurately as these 0o~rect names can .. be determined from the figures, c'late Fig. Name Given Correct: Name i XXXI 8 c. retecta ••••••••••••••• ~ •• c. luctuos8, Hlst. -11 fle'13ii!s ••.••••••..•••- ..•e. aHgus i fo rm--~1I!1-u'... c- e- - c.-c 14 -' obscura •••••••••••••••••• -C. resIdua Grt. XXXII 4 c. groteiana ...... -•• Looks like c. briseis Edw. 5 ~. carolina ••••••••••••••••• c. flebilis-Grt. 6 c. relicta ••••••••••••••••••c. rel!cta form clara Beut. 7 c. " var. bianca •••••••••••e. relicta Wlk. 12 c. amatrix ••••.•••••••••••••C. amatrix form selecta Wlk. 13 c. (f var. nurus ••••••••••••- C. amatrix Hb n. 19 Q. lineella ••••••••••••••••• -~. amica form curvifascia Brower XXXIII 1 c. ca1ifornica •••••••••••••• Looks like C. irene -Behr 2 C. ultronia ...... C. ultronia-form celia Hy.Edw. 4 C. cella ••-: ••••••••••••••••• Near typIcal C. ultronia Hbn. 6 c. meskei?; fig.8 of augusta is like C. meskei 8 Q. Qugusta •••••••••••••••••• Looks like pale £. mariana Stkr. XXXIV 7 C. osculata ••••••••••••••••• Is near typical C. 1!!! Cram. 13 c. POlY~ama •••••••••••••••••Q. ,mira Grt. 16 c. verrliiana •••••••••••••• Q. 'Q'Pl1e1ia Hy.Edw. XXXV 2 c. similis •••••••••••••••••• C. simi1is form aholah Stkr. 3 e. aholiih.l•• _••••• ...:, 0 ••••••• G. s.iIliills Edw-. 5 c. jaquenetta ••••••••••••••• IOoks like c. blandula Hlst. 7 c. praeclara •••••••••••••••• c. sordida Grt. 13 ,c. stretchi •••••••••••••••••LOoks like C. mariana Stkr. 14 'IT. £leo atra •••••••••••••••• prob. form' of nevadensis Baut. 15 c. rosa1 Inda •••••••••••.•••• LOoks l1ke C. taustlna Stkr. 18 g. babayaga ••••••••••••••••• " "C. arlzonae Grt. XXXVI7 C. hermia ••••••••••••••.•••• Prob. form of nevadensis Beut.

Memb&rs probably will find it useful to make these correc­ tions on the explanation pages bes'ide the plates or to copy the corrections and interleaf them next to the proper plates. - Ed. COLLECTING TRIPS William Hovanitz, of the University of Michigan, spent an inter­ esting summer in search of Colias in 'the Far North. He collected in the Peace River country, McMurray .. Ft. Smith, Yellowknife, DIsmal Lakes region, and Coppermine. L.P. Grey and Dr. A.E. Brower of Maine and A.C. Frederick of Albany, New York, accompanied by his son Arthur and Myles Abbot, an amateur photographer, left Greyts home in Lincoln, Me., on the first of August, and, via Van Buren, Maine, and Campbellton, N.B., arrived that night at Cascapedia, on the Gaspe peninsula. The next day they 'Nea t by jeep into the Shicshock !lits" some 50 miles in the interior, r..,ear the ~eadwaters of the Cascapedia river. Here they obtained, among other things: a small dark strain of S~eyeria atlantis (abun­ dant») S. cybele, subsp. nr.' novascotiae (raner common) i Plebejus ~~6piolus insulanus {not rare, but worn)i P01Y~Onia gracilis (not rare) • Interestingly enough .. no Glauco!syche ygdamus (couperi) were seen .. this apparently beihg, more typ!ca of the north coast. On A.ugust 3rd -they went on to Bathurst, N.B., and in the salt meadows nBar the town collected a nice series of freshly emerged Ltcaena ~orcas dospassosi and a few Coenonympha tullia nipisquit,he latter just begInning to emerge. Editor Clench was happy to meet two Lep. Soc. members, L. R. Rupert, of Horseheads, N.Y., and Douglas Ferguson, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. They spent a day here in CambrIdg~, studying PlagOdls spec­ imens at , the Agassiz Museum 'of Harvard, before going on to Martha t s Vineyard to do some collecting. Robert G. Wind, of Livermore, Calif., spent some time up in the Sierras, and reports among his other capt'ures, the rather unusual record of strymon adenostomatis taken at 8000 feet. Before his departure for Michigan" editor Clench did some mid­ summer collecting in the Blue Hills Reservation, near Boston, and found the buttertly situation much improved after the poor spring. Iie wrote: n I have never in my life seen such an abundance of Theeli­ nae around here." He took 94 hairstreaks in two days, the five spe­ cies being Mitoura damon and strymon falacer, edwardsi .. melinus, and ~itus. He later visited L.P. Grey in Lincoln, Maine. INSECT FIN LABELS

The Sherwood Press, Dryden, N.Y ... publishers of ~ Coleopter­ i~tst Bulletin, are offering labels set in 4 point type, printed in strip of about 30 labels on heavy ledger bond, at the low price of 500 for $ .50 or 1,000 for $ .75. The label may be 1-4 lines. J

Lep. Soc. members who have done much exchanging of papered spec­ imens undoubtedly have been bothered by the task of writing out full data labels for all the material obtained. '1'00 few specimens are re­ ceived in exchange from anyone locality to have labels printed. Great mutual time-saving will result if strips of labels are sent with papered material sent in exchange\. A few collectors have done this for years, and it would reduce some of the drudgery of developing a collec­ tion if this became ,universal. Of course, there are always some speci­ mens from localities from which less than 400-500 are taken, and labels are then impractical. NOT ICES !IT MEMBER§. PAPILIOS of the MACHAON group desired. Offering in exchange Lepido­ ptera of any groups from Calif. and Ariz. Also larvae and pupae of the machaon group are desired. David L. Bauer,P.O.Box 469, Yuma,Ariz. ------~------~--~.~------WANTED: Satyridae of the genus Minois from all parts of North .Am.erica~ 6Sp ... M. damelo Exchange or examination, for purposes of a revision. Ralph-L. Chermock, Dept, of Biology, Univ. of Alabama, University,Ala • • 'IL · ...... _____ ..... ___' __ ..... __ tilt. ____ ..... ___ ..... __ • ______... ______.. __ . _... _.. __ ..... _ WANTED: N. Am. butterflies, all gro~ps. Buy or. exchange. Have many ::,are N. Am. ,and tropical spp. I parti,cularly desire arctic material. Robert G, Wind, Rt. 1, Box 145, Livermore, California. - ' '''' ' . .. - ----,----.. ----...-.- ---- _.. _.. -- -.. ------.... ------_ ... -. - ... ------,,~r)R SALE. Eight glass-topped wood insect ca~es, 12 x 16 x 21", very slightly used. $40.00. Roderick R' Irwin, 1005 S. BIOOming~on St.~ streator, Illinois. ------.. ------.. -- .. ---~------~----- You are invited to. place your. name in the S,cie. t:t~t§i' .D1.rect.o.ry .. Na.mes 'class Ifis and listed 'by groups and covering all 14.nes of nature and science, amateur and professional. No charge for listing, SC lENT ISTS t DIRECTORY, Box 1344, Hartford 1, Connecticut. ~}**oJ. IF' YOU BUY, SELL, OR DETERMINE 11'ATERIAL SENT TO yOU FOR DETERMINATION, Pl..',~ your name in the SERVICE DIRECTORY. This covers ap~cimens, equip. m0nt, and supplies for nature lovers and scientists. Box 1344, Hart­ ford 1,. Conn. I ------~------I have FOR SALE a large no. of NOCTUIDAE ..from ------.----- Fla. and Colo.,. pinned and papered, c,omplete data, .and m9st named. Must dispose of these promptly and will make attra.cti ve pric.,.e for quantity orders. List of spp. sent on request. Expect soon to have Catocala and other Lepid. from Wisconsin. Have alao specimens from ChIcago area, fresh­ ly pinned and spread, for exch. Alex K. Wyatt, 5842 N. Kirby Ave" Chicago 30, Illinois. ,?J\PILIONIDAE------._---.------.------from all parts of the world. Wanted for exch. or pur­ 'base. In N.Am. material I need: Paa. phileno);' acauda, asterius !,- , ~ .!~~Ficus, asterius stabilis, brevicau a ~asteens is, brevicauda bre­ tonensis, bairdi, balrdl hollandi, bair i rucei, nltra, nitra'Ki'hli, machaon aliaska, machaon .. hudsonianus, machaon dodi, indra pergamus, indra minori, pilumnus. Parnasslus all except 'clodius, smint eus, sayi, hermodur. Carl Cook, Crailhope, Kentucky. ------~---~------~------~---~------.A new Insect Breeding Cage, cylindrical in four sections------.------with optional plastic or screen observation chambers, for sale • . Litera­ ture free on request. Bio-Metal ASSOCiates, P.O. Box 346, Beverly Hills, Calif • .... , ..... ------... ------.... ------. ---- ... -.. ------... _------... \V ANTED , for exchange or purchase, butterflies of the genus Philotes of the world. Rudolf Mattoni, 242 Lasky Drive, Beverly Hills, CalIf. LEPIDOPTERA------~------;------~----.--- from the Park Land belt and coniferous forest of western Canada for sale or limited exchange. Paul F. Bruggeman, R.R. 1, Fur­ ness, Sask., Canada. ------~------Arthur D. Hall of Nova Scotia has now disposed of -----.------the English butterflies offered in the "AugustU NEWS.

-59- The editors of the mm·m wish to express their gratitude tor the notices announcing establ1shment of the periodical which have been placed in two of the Ameriean published journals by their editors. The AnZ1:!!!!. of the Ent_

Dr. Ralph W. MacYi Reed College, Portland, Oregon, is preparing ,a book on the history, biology, classification and study of butter­ flies for a New York publisher, and asks for the assistance of Lap. Soc. members. He needs especially: information on habits, time of flight, etc., of all our butterflies; 35 zmn. Kodachromes of butterfly life histories or other biological material dea11ng with butterflies; black-and-whites of any such material. Credit will be given for any information and/or photographs used, and those pbotos not used will be returned. The pub11sher will pay for all photos used. 'r----- , For members of the Lep. Soc. who are also Coleopterists, the Coleohterists' Bulletin subscription is $1.00 and the address 1s: The S erwood Press, Dryden, N.Y. ~.**iHHt~I-;HHH~';HIo**tHt;"* "The "August" NEWS (p.45) contained a note on the new breeding cag,e. It is manuf'actured by R.H.T. Matton!, a Lep. Soc. member, and we suggest that all L£pidoptexa breeders write for~he free descr~p­ tive literature on these useful cages. ~~. Matto~i promises that a number of items of value to Lepidopterists will soon be marketed. If the prices and workmanship are good, he is assured of support from the Lep. Soc. Note the Bio-Metal adv. in the Exchanges section of' thi's issue. ;.*iH"" ~~i.-lH. ~~;HI-* *lHHHto The responsiveness of the NIDVS readers has been demonstrated well already~ Several members who placed items in the notice section were almost swamped by replies, and one member asked us to delete his notice since 'he was overwhelmed. pSJche also sold to members a large number of reprints as listed in the uiy NEWS. ' THE LEPIDOPTERISTS' ~VS is the monthly newsletter of The Lepidopter­ ists' SOCiety. Membership in the SOCiety is open to anyone interested in the study of butterf'lies and moths. The dues are $1.00 per year, and the NmlS is sent to all members. Please make checks and money or­ ders payable to: Charles L. Remiri§ton, Treas. Address all communica­ tions to P.O. Box 104, Cambridge 8, Massachusetts. -60-